My negotiated brief 2nd year.

As I have previously said in my last blog post I am uploading some more work from last year (academic). This project was really quite special to me because I had set myself really high goals and I was determined to produce this final and manage my time well. 

This was the first time I had been strict with myself and confident in my own idea. This was towards the end of the year as was the lie project and I had come leaps and bounds in the space of a few months with my confidence in my self. I have always struggled with it but I was proud of this project. (I still to this day hate showcasing my artwork but the joys of being behind a screen)

It's not perfect but it never is the day after let alone a few months! 

The basis of this project was to do create my own brief and execute it. I chose to do a recipe for children. As I want to become a teacher, I wanted to experiment with learning materials and instruction. I thought the recipe would be a really easy place to start and I could choose whatever is best visually as well. I wanted it to be colourful and bright so I chose the rainbow cupcakes which are simple enough. The final format was to be double sided A3 and then laminated for a wipe clean surface. 

I was also determined to hand draw absolutely everything in this project and I am pleased I did. The only thing that wasn't was the type for the instructions and the arrows for direction. I went all out and spend a lot of time making sure everything made sense. The only thing I completely forgot to take into consideration when placing on photoshop was to leave a few millimetres for bleed and the final print had taken a little bit off of the side to right. The biggest rookie mistake and I made it after all these years. I am glad I did though because next time I will give myself even more extra time towards print to make sure it is correct so if there is a problem I can tweak it. 

During the interim crit quite a few people commented on how they liked the drawing of the Vanilla extract I did and to be honest it was my favourite one to draw. 

We make mistakes to learn from them and for this project I had made plenty before during and after. 

Supernatural.

Swimming through the ample amount of USB sticks I own, I managed to find my final major project for my foundation degree. I based it on one of my favourite series Supernatural. I love drawing people and decided to take a chance and use Promarkers, I hadn't used use this medium before and I wasn't very confident but after a few attempts I produced these finals.

These were the focal point of my exhibition and I really enjoyed the project. I used as close to the original typeface that the Supernatural team use. Every season they change the background behind the type and I chose the blood splatter effect for mine. I created the posters for promotional use to go towards the new up coming serious. 

Life Drawing.

Life Drawing… I really do enjoy life drawing, I find the human body extremely interesting for the fact it comes in all shapes, sizes and colours. It also puts things into perspective and I felt challenged this time round compared to before in college where it was just using charcoal and quite easy poses. This time round I had to learn how to overcome my hatred of foreshortening.

The models used were very professional and the male model could stay in the same pose for hours. He was a pleasure to work with and also a different experience as I have previously only drawn woman, subconsciously I have aways drawn woman when I draw at leisure as I find the female anatomy and facial expressions easier than men. This experience has since boosted my confidence.